SIU hires more Negroes at Carbondale campus
SIU reports 29 Negro trainees hired in three weeks at Carbondale campus, a 60 percent rise from the overall civil service pool. The effort, backed by FEPC and local agencies, includes clerical, stenotypist, accounting, janitorial, maintenance posts, plus four Negro apprentices in carpentry, painting, plumbing and electrical work.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University
Carbondaley
John S.rendleman
SIU
Civil Service
Carbondale
Gren
Jackson Williamson Community Actions Agency
IWCAA
Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission For
FEPC
U.S. Department of Labor
Rendleman
Iillinois
Robert Stalls
Carbondale Area
SIU Black Students Seek Curriculum Change and Amnesty
A Black student leader at Southern Illinois University Carbondale says he will skip classes as charges loom over a break in to university offices. He calls for revised courses highlighting Black American figures and wants amnesty for charged students while planning peaceful, legal action.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Ilinois University
Daniel R. Thomas
Chiago
Saide
SIU
Delyte Worris
Thomas
Nat Turner
Eorge Washington Carver
E. B. du Bois
Carbondale
Carbondaleampus
Uckelroy Auditorium
Friay
Morris
Ray Lenzi
Edwardsville
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Morris Office
Carmichael
Coalition Day cancellations mark final exams dispute
SIU student body president Lenzi says Northwestern and other Illinois university reps joined private coalition meetings in Carbondale Saturday to discuss educational reform higher wages social rules campus recruiting housing and vehicle regulations. Illinois students canceled a planned trip citing pending finals and the group planned coordinating university reforms across the state.
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Northestern University
Rooseveltniversity
Eastern Illinois University
Stuent Coalition
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Northwestern University
Manston
SIU Stuent
Raymond Enzl
University of
Lenzi
Illcois
Corpsman of the Month named at Crab Orchard Center
John Schulte of Youngstown Ohio earns May Corpsman of the Month at Crab Orchard Civilian Conservation Center. He is 17 and joined Job Corps in August 1967. The awards dinner also named four new Corpsman Leaders. Mine report notes all mines reported working Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Schulte
Youngstown
Ohio
Crab Orchard Civilian Conservation Center
Schulte
Williamson sheriff faces itchy chigger question
The Williamson County Sheriff's office fielded many calls but a Friday inquiry asked how to treat chiggers. Radio operator Theodore Brush advised fingernail polish as a remedy, a suggestion echoed by Southern Illinoisan staffers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamson County Sheriff’s Office
Theodore Brush
Brush
Second white student arrested in SIU office break-in
SIU Security Police report the arrest of Patrick F. Vonnahmen for mob action in the May 8 break-in at the university president Morris’s office. He posted 2500 bail, arraignment set for Monday, and was the ninth student taken into custody after receiving treatment for a foot laceration.
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Malcolm X
Thomas
Chicago
Norris
Morris
SIU
Texas Southern
University of Texas At Houston
Southern Illinois
Patrick F. Vonnahmen
Vonnahmen
Jackson County
SIU Health Service
Work Starts on Rend Lake Dam Spillway Site
Construction begins on the Rend Lake dam area chosen for the spillway to be built. The dam will extend about two miles and create an 18 900 acre reservoir shaping regional water storage and flood control plans.
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Rend Lake
Rend Lake Reservoir
J. D. Barter Engineering Corp
Cavaness Named To Jackson County Board Of Review
Cal E. Cavaness of Carbondale has been appointed to a two year term on the Jackson County Board of Review. The announcement came from C. E. Wright, chief circuit judge, with Cavaness joining next month. He replaces Louis Adkins as a Democratic appointee and will serve alongside W. W. Kelly. Roy Gilbert will chair the board. James Gillmore serves as clerk as the board opens its June session to review township assessor work and prepare assessment lists.
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Cal E. Cavaness
Rt. 1
Carbondale
Jackson County
Board of Review
C. E. Wright
Cavaness
Louis Adkins
Wright
W. W. Kelly
Murphysboro
Roy Gilbert
Somerset Township
County Board of Supervisors
James Gillmore
County Supervisors of Assessments
Fire Hits Ray Maragani Home in Preece-Brown Addition
A fire at Ray Maragani's residence in West Frankfort's Preece-Brown addition caused estimated damage of 17000 dollars. The cause remained undetermined as of the Friday 11:35 a.m. call.
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West Frankfort
Ray Maragani
Preece - Brown
Funeral services today for Murphysboro hotel fire victims
Two women perish in early morning blaze at the Central Hotel in Murphysboro. Mrs. Ross Modglin Beal 67 and Mrs. Imogene Baseden Duffield 38 are to be laid to rest with services at Crawshaw Mortuary Chapel. A search found no additional victims.
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Central
Murphysboro
Ross Modglin Beal
Imogene Baseden Duffield
Friends
Chestnut Street
E. S. del Carmen
E. R. Rosenberger
Bessie May Modglin Beal
Makanda
Charles B
Minnie C. Craig Modglin
Ray Beal
Herbert
Alto Pass
Millard
Russell
Vincennes
Ind
Grover
Tacoma
Wash
Mattie Heern
Mary Litchfield
Peoria
Audry Heern
Eunice Baseden
Geraldine Marber
Lavica Smith
Ollie Schemonia
Mary Hicks
Pomona
Betty Weston
Cahokia
Evelyn Fleming
Peking
William Baseden
Pekin
Clarence Baseden
Vergences
Billy Baseden
Crawshaw Mortuary
Murdale Gardens
Rend College bond report due Tuesday
Attorney Donald Musick of Mt. Vernon will report on the status of 3.1 million dollars in bonds for Rend Lake College construction at the college governing board meeting Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the administration building Mt. Vernon The report follows a court test of the state junior college law that could delay bond issuance and notes a Monmouth area suit over inclusion in the Carl Sandburg Junior College district The board may approve leasing the Bonnie School building for two agriculture courses at 6000 dollars per year and adopt three chapters of a school policy manual plus a self study for accreditation An auditor college calendar 1968 69 and tenure status for faculty may be approved Dr J M Snyder will discuss personnel matters and instructor evaluations
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Donald Musick
Mt. Vernon
Rend Lake College
S. 7Th St
Musick
Monmouth Area
Carl Sandburg Junior College
Bonnie
J. M. Snyder
Airport bids for Williamson County project
Illinois Department of Aeronautics seeks bids for Williamson County Airport to replace existing runway lights with high intensity lighting. Bids will be opened in Springfield on May 29.
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Williamson County
Illinois Department of Aeronautics
Springfield
Du Quoin moves set five polling sites for recall bid
Du Quoin City Council sets five tentative polling places for a recall election and defers a date between June 13 and 23 while appealing court rulings. The council plans May 24 for steps before the vote and keeps five sites including city hall area and local schools.
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du Quoin
Tom Moss
Jerome Roznowski
Jack Struck
Anton Berg
Jack Malinee
Illinois State Supreme Court
Moss
Don Johnson
Theobald
City Hall
Elizabeth Siebert
S. Walnut St
Street bids accepted for Du Quoin arterial street work
Dunn Enterprizes of Pinckneyville and Central Petroleum of Centralia win contracts for arterial street materials funded by motor fuel tax. Estimated repair cost set at 21,710 dollars. Dunn bids cover crushed stone, surfacing material, and patching mixture. Central Petroleum supplies resurfacing material at 18.75 cents per gallon.
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Dunn Enterprizes
Pinckneyville
Central Petroleum
Centralia
du Quoin
Dunn
Six Men Charged With Disorderly Beach Disturbance
Five of six defendants charged with disorderly conduct at Crab Orchard beach were freed on bond in Marion. Douglas Smith James Wagster Danny Russell Ralph McGough Leonard Jennings and Tommy Overton faced charges after a Thursday disturbance. All pleaded innocent in circuit court with cases continued for jury trial.
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Crab Orchard Beach
Marion
Douglas Smith
James Wagster
Danny Russell
Herrin
Ralph McGough
Carterville
Leonard Jennings
Smith
Williamson County
Tommy Overton
Ron Morse
Southern Illinois University
Lan Haney
Burglary at Ullin Garage Theft Nets Car Safe
Thieves borrowed a new car from Dickerson Chevrolet Garage in Ullin after midnight to haul off the company safe. They also hit Bingaman Garage nearby, removing contents from a safe and leaving a damaged vehicle. The safe minus contents was found on a rural Allin road and the car recovered in Pulaski. About $25 in cash and tire tools were taken from Bingaman. No loss estimate for Dickerson Garage.
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Ullin
Pulaski County
Allin
Pulaski
Bilgaman
Dickerson
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Mary Helen Gasser
Elbert Simon
City Employment Service
Simon
Employment Service
Burton Bond
Labor Department
Stalls
John Flamer
Flamer
SIU Board of Trustees
Crab Orchard Center
Harrisburg
Benton
Rend College
du Quoin Council
Johnson
John T. Blankinship
Anto Berg
Bill Asa
Bruce Furniture Inc
Civil Defense
Illinois Central Railroad
Berg
Civil Defense Fund
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